7-20-2010

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July 20, 2010

Learning Objectives

Students will:

  • monitor comprehension while reading.

  • learn to write effective sentences.

  • learn new vocabulary words.

Homework:

  • Finish your scene summaries.
  • Summaries of Cornell Notes.
  • The teacher is checking all today's work tomorrow.

Reminders:





Agenda


Reading Section: Media Connection, page 578
  • Read the newspaper article, then answer the two questions at the end.

Grammar Section: Effective Sentences

Writing Section: Demands Chart
  • page 579
  • Complete the chart in your notebook.
  • Choose students to share with the class.

Reading Section: Before you Read page 579
  • Students volunteer to read.
  • Keep Cornell Notes:
    • Setting
    • Parents and Marriage
    • Astrology
    • Family Feuds

Grammar Section: Effective Sentences

Notes on Author William Shakespeare

Reading Section: Front loading Elizabethan Era
  • Review the notes from yesterday.
  • Watch the opening of Shakespeare in Love. Show the first 7 minutes and 7 seconds.
  • Explain and answer questions.

Reading Section: Dissecting the Chorus
  • Listen/Read through the Chorus.
  • Teachers/students read through the Chorus.
  • Explain the purpose of a chorus.
  • Explain the meaning of a chorus.
  • Watch and read the chorus again.

Reading Section: Act I, sc. i
  • Each scene will have a one page scene summary in your notebook:
  • ** Make a 3 column chart. Identify each character and his/her role and his/her attitude/behavior.
      • Capulets
      • Montagues
      • Other
    • Below the characters, write a one paragraph summary of what happens in the scene.
  • Students listen along with the play.
  • Students then read parts--contemporary version or Elizabethan version.
  • Begin working on your scene summaries.